Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kids aren't out in the streets," one former Nixon backer said. "The more I think about it, I think they should. I wish they would." And in their own way, many Philadelphians have tried to preserve their dignity with some form of protest. They write their congressmen. They sign petitions. They buy new bumper stickers saying "Now Nixon's the one" to cover the faded remains of their old one that read, "Four More Years...
Unlike 1967, when cease-fire positions were fairly clear, this time the sprawling battle lines mean a difficult assignment for the peacekeepers; in some places, the lines are almost impossible to find. But in a hopeful sign at week's end, U.N. representatives persuaded Israeli and Egyptian field commanders to meet in order to delineate temporary bounds and possibly to agree on localized pull backs...
...quietly processed through SchÖnau, where they have remained until leaving for Israel on the El Al Airlines jets that depart Vienna's Schwechat Airport nightly. In the past two years, nearly 50,000 Jews have been processed through SchÖnau and the rate shows no sign of declining...
This summer, in the largest agricultural strike in U.S. history, thousands of grape workers walked off their jobs when their employers refused to re-sign contracts with the United Farm Workers. Instead the growers signed "sweetheart" contracts (contracts between a union and an employer without union representation elections) with the Teamsters. Over 6000 people were arrested in California for trying to exercise their right to picket in peace. Two striking workers were killed; one was beaten to death by a sheriff's deputy; the other was shot as he picketed the fields of his employer. Despite anti-strike injunctions...
...effect, city manager John H. Corcoran has refused to sign the new contract until the Police Association drops its application to the American Arbitration Association for arbitration of longevity and night differential...